Does anyone have an Earthly explanation for this?

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3. I was going to add

for land lines, the power to run the phone comes from the phone company... so all that needs to happen for the speed dial phone calls is that the wire pair from the phone to the wall jack and down to the basement patch panel remain intact despite the building collapse. Very possible.

so, as long as the phone has buttons pushed by something on top of the phone, you will get phone calls via the speed dial.